Sciences and Technology

Siddhartha Mukherjee / The Gene: An Intimate History

The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader from Darwin’s groundbreaking theory...

Rebecca Solnit / Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (Large Paperback)

The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit’s new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating...

Paul Stratern / Curie and Radioactivity

Revealing the intensity, dedication, and determination of one of the century's most inspiring single working mothers, Curie and Radioactivity is for anyone curious about the "female Einstein, " and even more important, for all those who want to...

Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe / Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing (Large Paperback)

In March 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the electronic computer. Computers are everywhere: in our cars, our homes, our supermarkets, at the office, and at the local hospital. But as the contributors...

Bob Berman / Boom!: The Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, and Earthly Mayhem that Shook our Universe

Space is quiet. Billion trillions of stars slowly burning out their lives. Bodies of rock, moons, planets, floating in the dark. Most of the time. Sometimes violence is unleashed on the cosmos, the ripple effects so far-reaching that they stretch the...

Tony Stubblebine / Regular Expression Pocket Reference

Regular expressions are such a powerful tool for manipulating text and data that anyone who uses a computer can benefit from them. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming,...

Æleen Frisch / Essential System Administration Pocket Reference

If you're a Unix system administrator, then the information you need every day just to get your job done could fill a book--a very large book. But, practically speaking, you don't want to stop and thumb through a weighty volume each time a problem...

Charles D. Ferguson / Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know® (Large Paperback)

Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their radioactive waste posed to nearby communities grew over time,...

John Naughton / A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime (Large Paperback)

A look at the communications revolution examines the history of the Internet and what it means for society and the future, celebrating the the engineers and scientists who contributed to its development and the ideas that were behind some of its top...

Evelyn Cusack & Séamus Walsh - They Say it Might Rain : The Highs and Lows of Ireland’s Weather and Climate - BRAND NEW

The Irish weather. Subject of endless conversations, the saviour of small talk, and famously unreliable. We all know it well, as a constant, if capricious, backdrop to our lives. But how well do we really know it? While our relationship with the weather...

Steve Woolgar / Virtual Society? Get Real!: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality (Large Paperback)

This book investigates the precise effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). All aspects of our social, cultural, economic, and political life stand to be affected by their continued massive growth, but are...

Howard Rheingold / Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (Large Paperback)

In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. The digital...

Giuseppe Mantovani / New Communications Environments: From Everyday To Virtual (Large Paperback)

This multi-disciplinary book develops three intertwined the perspective of situated action from cognitive science, a model of social context as a framework for inspiring artifact use and starting from it, and the individual and organizational impact of...

Paul N. Edwards / The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Large Paperback)

The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul...

Evan Selinger / Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality (Large Paperback)

". . . an original, quirky, and illuminating collection of material concerning the relatively new and exciting field of technoscience studies. . . . [T]he editors' choice of multiple approaches to the work of four major figures is wholly suited to...

Langdon Winner/ The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Large Paperback)

"The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the...

Kyra Karmiloff / Pathways to Language: From Fetus to Adolescent (Large Paperback)

Our journey to language begins before birth, as babies in the womb hear clearly enough to distinguish their mother's voice. Canvassing a broad span of experimental and theoretical approaches, this book introduces new ways of looking at language...

Mark Poster / What's the Matter with the Internet? (Large Paperback)

In What's the Matter with the Internet?, leading cultural theorist Mark Poster offers a sophisticated and astute assessment of the potential the medium has to redefine culture and politics. Avoiding the mindless hype and meaningless jargon that has...

Dr. K. / A Complete Hacker's Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Hacking in the Internet Age (Large Paperback)

For the first time in the 90s, The Hacker's Handbook looks at the whole phenomenon of computer hacking, from its beginning in the computer networks of the early 80s, through the basic tools that hacker's use today.       This book...

Beth E. Kolko / Virtual Publics (Large Paperback)

How does virtuality affect reality? Fourteen experts consider this question from the perspective of law, architecture, rhetoric, philosophy, and art. Nearly all of the contributors have been online since before Netscape and a graphical World Wide Web;...

James J. O'Donnell / Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (Large Paperback)

The written word has been a central bearer of culture since antiquity. But its position is now being challenged by the powerful media of electronic communication. In this penetrating and witty book James O'Donnell takes a reading on the promise and the...

Ernest Nagel & James R. Newman / Gödel's Proof (Exact Copy)

In 1931 Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of "Principia Mathematica" and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic...

Paul Ramsey / Fabricated Man (Exact Copy)

The Ethics of Genetic Control, originally 1970.  "Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control" explores the ethical implications of advancements in genetic technology, including birth control, artificial insemination, and potential impacts on the...

Bruno Latour / Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies (Large Paperback)

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: “Do you believe in reality?” Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora’s Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality...

John Rogers Searle / Minds, Brains and Science (Large Paperback)

Minds, Brains and Science takes up just the problems that perplex people, and it does what good philosophy always it dispels the illusion caused by the specious collision of truths. How do we reconcile common sense and science? John Searle argues...

Kristin Braa / Planet Internet (Large Paperback)

Digital convergence across computer, broadcasting and communication technologies is rapidly changing the ways we develop and use information technologies. The emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web has enabled interaction, competition and...

David Eagleman / Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Large Paperback)

If the conscious mind - the part you consider to be you - is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to...

Carl Sagan - Murmurs of Earth : The Voyager Interstellar Record - PB - 1978

Published by Ballantine Books, 1978. An account by Sagan and other scientists of the thinking behind the messaging on the Voyager probes, notably on the ' golden record' . 

M Mitchell Waldrop - The Dream Machine : J.C.R and the Revolution that made Computing Personal - HB

Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. He did not design the first personal computers or write the software that ran on them, nor was he...

Clifton Fadiman ( Editor) / Fantasia Mathematica (Exact Copy)

Fantasia Mathematica is an anthology published in 1958 containing stories, humor, poems, etc., all on mathematical topics, compiled and edited by Clifton Fadiman.  The volume contains writing by authors including Robert Heinlein, Aldous Huxley, H. G...

Donald Knuth / Fundamental Algorithms ( Volume 1) - The Art of Computer Programming (Exact Copy) 2nd Edition

This volume begins with basic programming concepts and techniques, then focuses more particularly on information structures-the representation of information inside a computer, the structural relationships between data elements and how to deal with them...

Robert Wright / The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Large Paperback)

Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind...

Thomas F. Gieryn / Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line (Large Paperback)

Why is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims...

Ray Kurzweil / The Age of Spiritual Machines (Large Paperback)

Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first...

Paul E. Ceruzzi / A History of Modern Computing (Large Paperback)

This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the advent of the World Wide Web. The author concentrates on four key moments of the transformation of the computer in the late 1940s...

Larry Cuban / Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom (Large Paperback)

Impelled by a demand for increasing American strength in the new global economy, many educators, public officials, business leaders, and parents argue that school computers and Internet access will improve academic learning and prepare students for an...

Adam Greenfield / Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing (Large Paperback)

Ubiquitous computing--almost imperceptible, but everywhere around us--is rapidly becoming a reality. How will it change us? how can we shape its emergence? Smart buildings, smart furniture, smart clothing... even smart bathtubs. networked street...

Byron Reeves, Clifford Nass / The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places (Large Paperback)

Can human beings relate to computer or television programs in the same way they relate to other human beings? Based on numerous psychological studies, this book concludes that people not only can but do treat computers, televisions, and new media as...

Donald Ervin Knuth / Selected Papers on Computer Science (Large Paperback)

This still timely collection of papers by Donald Knuth, "the father of computer science," surveys the field of computer science and the nature of algorithms. Topics covered here include the relationship between computer science and mathematics, the...

Daniel Drescher / Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps (Large Paperback)

In 25 concise steps, you will learn the basics of blockchain technology. No mathematical formulas, program code, or computer science jargon are used.No previous knowledge in computer science, mathematics, programming, or cryptography is required...

Arnold Pacey / The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology (Large Paperback)

From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of future technological development. The second edition of The Maze of...

Ben Forta / SQL in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself (Large Paperback)

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Fourth Edition New full-color code examples help you see how SQL statements are structuredWhether you're an application developer, database administrator, web application designer, mobile app developer, or Microsoft...

John Scott Bowie / Navigating the Politics of UX: Strategies and Stories from 40 Years in the Trenches (Large Paperback)

In 1996, I began teaching a two-day UX workshop to HP's product divisions throughout the US, Europe, Canada and Asia. I had worked at HP for the past 14 years as a manager and engineer/scientist, most recently as a member of HP Corporate Engineering's...

Dan Bader / Python Tricks: A Buffet of Awesome Python Features (Large Paperback)

“I don’t even feel like I’ve scratched the surface of what I can do with Python” With Python Tricks: The Book you’ll discover Python’s best practices and the power of beautiful & Pythonic code with simple...

Michael Drummond / Renegades of the Empire (Large Paperback)

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was by no accounts a kind, nurturing type of manager. In conversation, according to Renegades of the Empire , Gates is said to challenge and goad people just to see how robustly they'll defend a position. He may not know...

Bjørn Lomborg / Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (Large Paperback)

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than...

Robert M. Drake / Science: The Stars in Me are the Stars in You (Large Paperback)

This book employs the comparative method to understand societal collapses to which environmental problems contribute to the common youth and society as a whole. We all are broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful...

Richard Dawkins / The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Large Paperback)

Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene...

E.J. Lemmon / Beginning Logic (Large Paperback)

The aim of this book is to provide an exposition of elementary formal logic. The course, which is primarily intended for first-year students who have no previous knowledge of the subject, forms a working basis for more advanced reading and is...

Joseph Dumit / Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (Large Paperback)

By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory...

Peter M. Higgins / Mathematics for the Curious

When do the hands of a clock coincide? How likely is it that two children in the same class will share a birthday? How do we calculate the volume of a doughnut? Mathematics for the Curious provides anyone interested in mathematics with a simple and...

Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

In this brilliantly ambitious and provocative book, evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller shows the evolutionary power of sexual choice, and the reasons why our ancestors became attracted not only to pretty faces and bodies, but to minds that...